Becky Billock, adjunct instructor of piano at West Liberty University, will present a solo piano recital at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 5 in the Elbin Auditorium, College Hall, on campus. Her unique and intriguing program features music from the 20th and 21st centuries written exclusively by women composers.
The performance is free and open to the public.
Billock is an active recital soloist and chamber musician. She has appeared as soloist with regional orchestras in Oregon and California and has performed solo and chamber recitals in numerous locations throughout the U.S., including several tours of northwest cities. She has appeared on the Seattle radio station Classical KING FM 98.1, WQED 98.3FM in Pittsburgh, and American Public Media’s “Performance Today.”
She holds degrees from Walla Walla College, the University of Redlands and the University of Washington. Since focusing her dissertation on contemporary women composers, she has been a proponent of women’s music and last spring released a CD of piano music by American women.
A recent winner of the Pittsburgh Concert Society Major Auditions, Billock performed in that organization’s concert series in September 2010. During the 2010-2011season she also presented the program “Women at Present” in eight west coast cities.